Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Jonathan Bray
MSI netbook gets second Wind…
You may have read our review of the MSI Wind earlier in the week. If you didn’t, here’s the deal: we liked it. A lot.
So we were even more pleased to discover that the very same laptop was going to be available from PC World for signicantly less cash – £32 to be precise at £238 exc VAT. Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, we reckon.
Aside from the slightly different colour scheme – the Advent 4211 Netbook has a black lid where our MSI review sample was all decked out in white – it’s an identical piece of kit. A decent 10in, 1,024 x 600 resolution wide screen is complemented by one of the most usable keyboards we’ve yet seen in a netbook – and the trackpad’s not bad either.
Inside is an 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor and this is backed up by 1GB of RAM and an 80GB hard disk and around the edges is a decent array of ports and expansion slots. With this specification, the 4211’s XP installation will run at a fair old lick.
The battery is, unfortunately, also the same – with a minimal capacity of 2,200mAh promising similar, underwhelming battery life.
Still, we gave the MSI Wind U100 five stars in our original review, and the lower price means this version looks even better value for that rating. Look out for a full review very soon…
Tags: 4211, advent, cheap, laptop, MSI, netbook, wind
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July 14th, 2008 at 10:43 am
I appreciate the sticker on the left of the machine might be for reviewers etc, but what is the deal with stickers ruining the design of laptops? Sony are especially fond of the stickers…
July 14th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
As I understand it, the MSI Wind and it’s rebadged clones may not be identical on the inside. There was a link *darn it, can’t find it anywhere* that showed a breakdown of either the advent, or the Medion Akoya version of the same; whilst the MSI has 1gb ram soldered onto the mobo a la macbook air, the rebadged version was lacking this feature… hence, possibly lower max ram, 2 vs 3gb? also, check for BT – one of them was definitely lacking it…